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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

I have a quick and cute halloween party to share with you today: no tricks, just treats!

I made 3 of everything so that each one of my kids could have a special little package on halloween day. My 2 oldest kids have retainers this year and they are already lamenting all the gummy candies that they will not be able to eat. ha!

I love all of the critters dressed up in their Booyah costumes! Especially the bat sheep - cracks me right up!

The cupcake toppers are my fave. I stamped the greeting, from Happy Howloween, to frame the images.

The Candy Corn patterned paper from Perfectly Plaid Fall ties everything together. I just want to point out that the little sprinkles on top of the cupcakes are maple flakes. MAPLE FLAKES. I found a little jar on severe liquidation at William Sonoma (because I can't afford WS treats otherwise, I mean maple flakes at 3$ are fine, but at 25$? nope) and I have been putting them on everything. On toast, on oatmeal, in coffee. So good. Everyone loves maple, right? Not just me because of the Canada connection?

Moving right along, these gable treat boxes are so perfect. I dressed up the same critters and slapped them onto the fronts.

I hope you like my all-cute-no-spook halloween party! I set up for this photoshoot, and cleaned everything up before the kids came home from school. I can't wait for them to see it all put back together on Monday!

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

For our last day of this month's Lawn Fawn inspiration week, I thought I would try something a little different.

This is more simple than I usually do, but having a few card ideas that can come together more easily is always a good idea around the holidays! You can create this card with 1 ink pad, 1 paper choice and 1 copic marker (I used 4, haha. Gotta add some shading!)

I stamped out the car, added the tree on top and stamped the lettering all around. The rest of it - "there's no place like....for the holidays" - came from Snow Cool. I did have to get a little creative to stamp out the word "no," since those penguins are only about the sNOw, but it all worked out.

The gingham panels on the top and bottom were stamped using Gingham Backdrops - still a favorite!

A simple card like this one needs a little special something. I added glossy accents to all of the letters and the car. It gives the card a much-needed pop!

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

I love this aqua/red/white combo for Christmas! The 2 fairies are perched on mushrooms and holding up the big Noel, which is so perfect if you need Christmas cards with french greetings like I do! Half of our teachers are french-speaking, so this will come in very handy for me.

I hope you like my sweet fairy card! Check out all the design team cards that were actually scheduled for the correct day (insert eye roll) - click!

To help the white sheep pop against the white die-cut circle, I rubbed some soft brown ink into the center of the circle die-cut, which was enough to set the sheep apart.

Did you notice the figgy pudding balloon? From Party Animal. I added the icing top myself, with a copic-friendly pen. The berry and leaves are from Joy to the Woods. Also, the little Santa hat he's wearing and gingebread cookie he's holding are from Holiday Party Animal.

I nestled the Fa la la la la border right into patterned paper and die-cut circle, by cutting it into those layers so that everything would layer flat except for the sheep and balloon.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

I wanted the sheep to pop, so I put him against a starry night background (using the snowy backdrop die.) I cut the same tag shape out of navy cardstock, and then ran it through with the snowy backdrop die so that it had the same shape. I chopped it off to reveal the Stitched Border details on the base tag. I thought they worked so well with the sheep image!

I hope you like my tags! Kelly Marie liked them so much she recreated one on video to show you - click! Just scroll down to the end of the LF blog post to see it.

Monday, October 10, 2016

I illustrated the 4 critters that you see here: a hedgehog, a badger, a deer and a teeny little mouse. I just think that the little mouse is the sweetest! And that deer is perfect for Christmas and baby cards too, not just for fall!

I stamped, colored and die-cut all of the images and set them onto an ink-blended background. The leaves blowing in the wind is including in the set as one image - perfect for framing out the shorter critters and giving the whole card a sense of balance.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the NT blog this morning - click!

Monday, October 3, 2016

I'm on the NT blog today showing off a card set I made to slip into my sister's baby gift basket (thank goodness she doesn't check crafty blogs, lol.)

My little sister is having twins in December! She already has 2 girls and this will be girls 3 and 4. We're so excited!

I love creating thank you cards for new moms. I used Itty Bitty Welcoming Committee for these cards. I love that the image is so large it takes the guesswork out of designing the card-front.

When I create multiples of the same set, I usually do it very systematically. First, stamp and color all images, then die-cut them. Next, figure out what to do with them. It's not usually all planned out!

The best decision I did make was to frame out the focal image with the Hooray wreath. I snipped the word hooray out and placed it onto a piece of grey cardstock.

I splattered some white ink onto the grey circle to give it a dreamy quality and added some pink to the bottom half of each card to make sure that the set looked girly enough for my sister and her soon-to-be-FOUR girls.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

I wanted to share a few more projects I made using digi stamps from my Etsy shop's halloween collection. They feature a couple of cute little witches:

First up, these little tags are so easy to make! I just placed the little witch from the Pumpkin Carvings set over the sentiment. I colored her in brighter halloween colors, to make it less scary and more cute for the littles. I showed my daughter the tags, and she's excited to color a bunch of them for her friends. That's the beauty of digis! I'll just print and cut out the tag shapes and she will happily color and gift them with a little halloween treat for her classmates.

My second little witch, from the Cute Witch digi set (insert eye roll, I ran out of creativity when naming that one!) is ready for candy! I layered the sentiment over her skirt, colored the image and placed it over a starry coverplate (by Lawn Fawn.)

These lovely ladies are too cute to spook! I hope you like them too - check them out in the Just ME digital stamps store - click!